Aged care

Expensive housing and poor or non-existent superannuation is putting an “emerging group” of older Australians at increased risk of homelessness. Mission Australia’s report into homelessness and older Australians has found that the number of people […]

On November 21 Unity Housing has formally opened the most recent affordable housing project at Blair Athol. Project summary: sale of four obsolete SACHA-funded dwellings; reinvestment on the Renewing our Streets and Suburbs site in Blair […]

The South West Ageing in Place Housing Pilot Projects were officially opened in Boyanup last week, celebrating the completion of 23 new affordable homes for seniors in Boyanup and Dardanup. The development was opened by […]

The $16.7 million Benjamin Short Grove aged care facility near Orange, New South Wales, aims to address the growing number of aged homeless people in the state’s central west region. One of the facility’s residents […]

Calls for urgent government action to build 60,000 additional social housing dwellings are being made by Mission Australia following the release of their new report. The report, Ageing and Homelessness: solutions for a growing problem highlights the […]

THE soaring cost of housing in Queensland in forcing age pensioners into poverty, according to a new report. The Queensland Council of Social Service’s latest Cost of Living Report reveals older couples who rely on […]

Throughout Australia older people are losing their savings, property and homes through financial abuse, usually at the hands of persons close to them such as an adult child or grandchild. A sense of entitlement, ‘Inheritance […]

With home ownership levels declining housing stress is a growing issue among seniors in Australia, particularly in conjunction with the growing figure of homelessness on the rise . Latest numbers show that approximately one third of seniors […]

An increasing number of pensioners are struggling so much to make ends meet, they’re turning to campgrounds and caravan parks for accommodation. A quarter of tenants at the Ōtāhuhu Caravan Park are collecting the pension, […]

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